WPTDeepStacks Johannesbourg

A long day of poker action at the WPTDeepStacks Johannesburg has come to a finish on a day that saw the late registration period close, the money bubble burst and just 29 players completing all 11 60-niveaux de minutes.

When level 19 came to its conclusion, it was Maria Ho who bagged the biggest stack and will lead going into the final day with 929,000. At one point during the final level of the day, Ho became the first player to cross the one million chip threshold but was unable to keep above that mark.

Steve Radloff, who won the biggest pot of the day against Jason Dominguez-Baya after both players flopped a set and filled up to a house on the turn with Radloff holding pocket jacks over pocket nines, will return with 873,000.

Robert Fenner (745,000), Roy Bitton (707,000) and Bruno Pereira (707,000) complètent les cinq premiers comptes.

The registration period closed after the first level of the day, and the entrants total was confirmed at 387, qui signifiait 39 places would get paid and the first-place prize of R1,000,000 (environ $68,000) a été annoncé.

When the action got down to the money bubble, it was a tense affair with short stacks doubling up, including David Rosenthal who hit a pair of nines on the flop with ace-nine to come from behind and beat Justin Uys' ace-queen.

Ultimately it was Kosta Kotsikaris who was the final player to depart without a cash reward for their efforts after the short stack found himself all in with pocket tens only to lose to Warrick Wiegand's pocket queens.

Il y avait 60-minutes left on the clock for the day at this point, and ten more players departed, all be it with money in their pockets before time was up on Day 2.

The final day will recommence at 11:30 am local time on Sunday, October, 14 où le 29 players will be whittled down to a final table and from there a winner will be crowned.

Maria Ho 929000
Steve Radloff 873000
Robert Fenner 745000
Roy Bitton 707000
Bruno Pereira 707000
Riyad Khan 682000
Justin Uys 664000
Gregory Pen Lai 560000
Shadley Abrahams 490000
George Levine 485000
Ben Maxton 484000
Jarred Solomon 470000
Patmaseelan Naicker 380000
Jason Hofmann 349000
Jaco Bam 323000
Antonio Bordalo 312000
Kenneth Morgan 288000
John Abrosie 285000
Huawei Sun 280000
Jerome Safi 273000
Vriel Levy 272000
Grant Potgieter 238000
Tianxiang Zhang 216000
Warrick Wiegand 216000
Jose Abreu 150000
Steven Wylie 129000
Joseph Rahme 128000
Jason Dominguez-Baya 91000
David Rosenthal 57000

39th- Clayton Diab
38th- Jesse Rosen
37th- Barry Conway
36th- Jason Strauss
35th- Dimitris Petridis
34th- Max Sartirana
33rd- Darryn Lipman
32nd- Gil De Almeida
31st- Alex Stivastis
30th- Imran Bohjani

The final four hands will be played on Day 2 avant que les joueurs restants n'emballent leurs jetons.

Le flop était tombé , and a player from early position bet 80,000. Alexander Stivastis was in the next seat and moved all in for 140,000. Maria Ho was the final player in the hand and went into thinking mode from the big blind.

Après 30 seconds Ho raised to 200,000 enough to put her opponent all in. He initially didn't realize Stivastis had moved all in, but once he saw he folded fairly quickly.

Ho a déposé pour les quads flopés et Stivastis était mort avec .

Stivastis departed the table to collect his cash and Ho took in the pot to become the first player to hit the one million chip mark.

Barry Conway moved all in for 40,000 from middle position, and George Levine called from the small blind.

Barry Conway :

Georges Levine :

Conseil:

Conway needed to hit to survive but the cards didn't fall in his favor, and he was left to claim his min-cash from the payout desk as Levine moved up to 560,000.

Bien qu'il ait doublé il y a peu, Kosta Kotsikaris n'a pas réussi à survivre dans la bulle.

Warrick Wiegand raised from under the gun and Kotsikaris moved all in for 27,000 from the small blind, which Wiegand called.

Le directeur du tournoi a demandé aux joueurs de révéler leurs mains et Kotsikaris s'est retrouvé dans une situation malheureuse avec son short stack.

Kosta Kotsikaris : Warrick Wiegand :

Conseil:

There was no help for Kotsikaris on the board, and he was eliminated in 40th place, which meant the remaining 39 players were all in the money and guaranteed a minimum cash worth R28,000.

David Rosenthal moved all in from middle position for around 60,000, and Justin Uys called in the cutoff.

David Rosenthal : Justin Uys :

Conseil:

A big rail gathered to see the hand play out with Rosenthal, the player at risk of elimination. But he paired his nine on the flop to take the lead and swerved Uys' outs to secure a full double on the money bubble.

Kosta Kotsikaris moved all in for just 15,000 and was called by Steve Radloff in the big blind.

Kotsikaris détenait une paire de sept et Radloff un six-quatre. Le tableau est épuisé and Kotsikaris doubled up to 38,000.

Jarred Solomon élevé à 15,000 from early position and the action folded to Malikeh Jamali in the big blind.
Jamali n'avait que six big blinds et réfléchit avant de faire tapis, et Solomon suivit.

Jamali a tenu and was at risk against Solomon's . Le tableau est épuisé , and Jamali was eliminated in 41st place, just short of the money.

Grâce à 40 players left, the action will now go hand-for-hand with 39 places payées.

Le reste 42 les joueurs sont partis sur une 15-minute de pause.

Ben Maxton is sitting with a new and improved 690,000 chip stack, and he confirmed he eliminated Ben Otto to continue his rise up the ranks.

Jason Dominguez-Baya a ouvert l'action avec une relance à 20,000, et Steve Radloff a appelé sur le bouton. Le flop est tombé et Radloff a parié 15,000 après que Dominguez-Baya ait checké. Ce dernier a cependant très rapidement mis en place une relance pour 50,000 et Radloff avait besoin de temps pour réfléchir. Après une minute, il a relancé à 110,000 que Dominguez-Baya a appelé après que les deux aient discuté de combien chacun avait laissé derrière lui.

Le tour était le , et Dominguez-Baya checka à nouveau. Radloff poussa un stack valant près de 100,000 au milieu et avant même qu'il ait lâché les jetons, Dominguez-Baya a fait tapis, et Radloff a payé.

Dominguez-Baya a rapidement révélé une paire de neuf pour le full mais a été sous le choc lorsque Radloff a déposé une paire de valets pour une meilleure maison.

Dominguez-Baya a appelé pour un neuf sur la rivière, mais il n'y a pas eu de quads miracles pour lui, et Radloff a remporté un 710,000 pot, avec Dominguez-Baya à gauche 290,000.

Le flop était tombé , et Antonio Matias a mis tous ses jetons au milieu, et George Levine a accepté.

Matias a retourné une paire de huit mais était derrière la paire d'as de Levine. Les cartes du tournant et de la rivière n'ont apporté aucun miracle à Matias, et lorsque les piles de jetons ont été comptées, il a été confirmé que Levine avait couvert son adversaire et Matias est reparti juste avant l'argent.

Levine has seen his chip stack swing up and down throughout the day but is now back up to 400,000.

Abdool Essa, qui a été couronné champion du Main Event du WPTDeepStacks Johanessburg en mars, est arrivé au Day 2 deuxième au décompte des jetons mais malheureusement pour lui, il n'a pas pu continuer sur sa lancée.

Essa a récemment quitté le terrain à court d'argent et avec cela, ses chances de défendre son titre ont disparu. Essa est cependant sûr d'être satisfait de sa semaine après avoir remporté un titre lors du festival cette semaine et sera certainement de retour en action la prochaine fois que le WPT s'arrêtera en ville.

Ben Maxton, 380000
Bruno Pereira, 520000
Emmanuel Kistan, 205000
Jason Hofmann, 240000

Shadley Abrahams raised from under the gun, and when the action folded to Gary Citron in the hijack, he moved all in for 88,000. The rest of the table folded and after Abrahams got confirmation of Citron's stack amount he called.

Shadley Abrahams : Gary Citron :

Conseil:

It was a rare situation as jacks came up against jacks with the likelihood of a split pot extremely high. But when the all spades flop fell Abrahams had outs to the flush. The turn card kept Citron safe, but when the fourth spade hit the river, Citron saw his Main Event come to an end brutally.

Abrahams took the unlikely win and moved up to 450,000.

Having lost a sizeable pot to Ben Otto in the previous level, Maria Ho has been able to get her chips back in their most recent battle.

Ho raised to 9,000 from middle position and Otto called from the cutoff. The flop fell and Ho saw her 16,000 continuation bet quickly raised to 55,000. She contemplated her next move for a minute before she called and the turn was revealed to be the . Les deux joueurs checkent, et après que la carte de la rivière soit tombée, le , Ho bet 57,000.

Just like the previous hand, Otto went into the tank on the river and sat silently for close to 90 seconds before this time around he decided to fold.

Ho swooped the pot and moved back up to 390,000, as Otto dropped to 310,000.

Riyad Khan, 410000
Steve Radloff, 350000
Alexander Stivastis, 250000
Gregory Pen Lai, 280000